At 11:08 pm 10/3/96, matthew green wrote:
>why restrict this to root ? shouldn't it work for anyone who
>had write perms on /usr/share/man/cat? ?
The simple answer is I was being lazy. I check my /usr/share/man, found
that write permissions were only given to root, and thought that a
geteguid()==0 check was easier to write than a writable check ;-) Feel
free to change it, of course...
Jules
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